[ python-Bugs-1414673 ] Underspecified behaviour of string methods split, rsplit

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Bugs item #1414673, was opened at 2006-01-25 10:23
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Category: Documentation
Group: Python 2.4
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Collin Winter (collinwinter)
>Assigned to: Raymond Hettinger (rhettinger)
Summary: Underspecified behaviour of string methods split, rsplit

Initial Comment:
The documentation for the string methods split and
rsplit do not address the case where sep=None and
maxsplit=0.

Should this strip off the leading and trailing
whitespace, but not do any splits? Should it simply
return the invocant string?

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